Monday, 3 July 2006
The Explanation of The Alexa Spike Anomaly 
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Earlier today Scott Matthews, the author of Bitty, sent me a link that might contain the answer to my earlier question about the Alexa Spike Anomaly. As this post explains, or perhaps I should say speculates, the Alexa spike was caused by the April story about Digg overtaking Slashdot. The explanation sounds fairly plausable, until you take a closer look at the dates - they do not match! The Digg story was a hit on March 19 2006, while the Alexa charts show a spike about a month later, around April 20, 2006. Hmmm. The mystery remains.
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